Andy's Blog

The Fillauer product and Supplier Partner product webpage presents the AllPro with Direct Mount Pyramid prosthetic foot’s various features and functions, highlighting each of them and how they play a unique part.   The AllPro's functionality is designed with active users in mind, offering great versatility and dynamic performance. It allows amputees to partake in a variety of activities, including jogging, walking, and sports like basketball and tennis. (Low Extremity Review Article “Fillauer AllPro Foot”, September 2017).   The prosthetic features a carbon composite architecture of the foot that provides smooth plantar and dorsiflexion, absorbing and returning energy efficiently to accommodate high-impact exercises as well as daily wear (Fillauer, n.d.). Among the features is the AllPro's rocker toe, which facilitates effortless rollover and results in more fluid, low-effort movements. The exact alignment adjustments provided by the RPI pyramid adapter allow for a more custom...

We, Andy and Yuan Xu, used Google to do a search for companies of prosthetic legs using terms such as: "Prosthetic legs companies" and, "Leading companies of prosthetic legs". After comparing the prosthetic legs of each company, we decided to do research on the category of sports prosthetics on the Ottobock webpage. We came across the Runner, model 1E91, on the Ottobock site. We decided to use the 1E91 Sports Prosthetic as our subject for device research. We looked up brochures and instruction manuals on Google for the product by searching “1E91 Ottobock”. After reading and collecting the information on the functions and features of the product, we wrote a brief summary of the collected information. We inserted it into ChatGPT to refine the vocabulary and grammar of the summary. After doing more research, such as price and functionality comparison, through ChatGPT, I decided to change my focus on Device Research to a product I found that's way more versatile and...

  Dear Professor Blackstone, My name is Andy Lam, a Year 1 engineering student in your "Critical Thinking & Communicating" module. I wanted to take this opportunity to share a little bit about myself. For the past four years, I’ve volunteered for an organisation every Saturday teaching English, math, and occasionally science to children in my neighbourhood and afterwards, during my free time I would either go to the gym, play computer games, or just start watch a movie on the television with my dad. I might be one of the older students in the class, having spent two years earning a NITEC certificate in aerospace technology at ITE (2017-2018), followed by three years pursuing a diploma in biomedical engineering at Nanyang Polytechnic. Initially, I chose aerospace technology for the salary and the job stability as an aircraft engineer, but my interest shifted towards biomedical engineering when I became fascinated by the idea of servicing machines that can prolong hum...

    “Communication skills are an essential component in the education of engineering students to facilitate not just students’ education but also to prepare them for their future careers.” Marc Riemer, Faculty of Engineering, Monash University (2007) This quote emphasizes the importance of communication skills not just in the education of students but also in their future careers (Professional Setting) and daily lives (Casual Setting). As to why is that, it is to have the ability to converse and share ideas proficiently, in doing so would help both parties to bond, learn, and furthermore improve their skills, knowledge, and relationship with one another to have successful career and personal life. For example, in a professional setting, one can use the opportunity to guide, seek guidance, trade information, establish new partnerships, and improve old ones. Similarly, in a casual setting, one can use the opportunity to widen his/her social network by befriending others....